Robert Crichton (rugby union)
| Full name | Robert Young Crichton | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 18 August 1897 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Downpatrick, Co. Down | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 29 July 1940 (aged 42) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Dublin, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Campbell College | ||||||||||||||||
| University | Trinity College Dublin | ||||||||||||||||
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Robert Young Crichton (18 August 1897 — 29 July 1940) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Born in Downpatrick, Crichton was the son of a newspaper editor, who was proprietor of the Down Recorder.[1]
Crichton attended Belfast's Campbell College and had four years in the first XV, earning Ulster Schools representative honours. He was captain of Dublin University in 1924–25, while studying medicine at Trinity College.[2]
A bulky forward, Crichton was capped 15 times for Ireland during the early 1920s, as a second row forward and occasional prop, in addition to an appearance with a combined Ireland-Scotland team in the 1923 centenary match.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Mr R. Y. Crichton". Banbridge Chronicle. 3 August 1940.
- ^ "R. Y. Crichton (Dublin University)". Sport (Dublin). 11 February 1922.
- ^ "Mr. R. Y. Crichton". Northern Whig. 31 July 1940.
External links
[edit]- Robert Crichton at ESPNscrum